WASHINGTON — Urgently shifting course, the Bush administration is abandoning the centerpiece of its massive $700 billion economic rescue plan and exploring new ways to shore up not only banks but credit-card, auto-loan and other huge nonbank businesses. Democrats are pressing hard to include a multibillion-dollar bailout for faltering automakers, too _ over administration objections. Unimpressed by any of the talk on Wednesday, Wall Street dove ever lower.
"The facts changed and the situation worsened," Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said at...
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